If you're looking for low-cost, reasonable giveaways,
I've found success with http://www.baudville.com  They
have some very tasteful, often inexpensive,
recognition items.  We used the pins, pens, and pads
that said that the person was an "Essential Piece".

If you're looking at just finding "fun" and really
cheap giveaways, you may want to look at
http://www.orientaltrading.com  At a recent offsite,
we asked a series of questions to reinforce the
learning.  When the person answered the question
correctly, we responded "Pay that (wo)man $100!"  And
then we gave them $100.  But the $100 was a miniature
replica contained in a cute little key chain, and we
got about a dozen for $3.95 and then the incremental
cost of shipping.  We also gave all our participants
stress balls with squishy faces that went over very
well, too.

--- Pamela Silvestri <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>  
>  
> Giving away archival materials is a great idea!
> That's so nice that you've  
> done that! I love it...I'm going to mention this to
> our museum board. Thanks 
> for  mentioning this.
>  
> I would think you shouldn't be concerned about
> giving the certificates  as 
> being too repetitive. As you say, they are
> meaningful - and that's the  most 
> important thing. We've had our volunteer pizza
> dinner every year, at the  same 
> place for the last 10 years! The meaning behind the
> dinner is what is  
> important. As long as the pizza is still
> good....hehe.
>  
> Pam


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